Page 193 - In A New World

"After all, there's no place like home, Obed."

"That's a fact, but perhaps Jack doesn't feel so."

"My home isn't what it was once," said Jack soberly. "If mother hadn't
married again it would have been different, but I never can like or respect
my step-father."

"There's one place you ought to visit before you start for home, Harry,"

suggested Obed.

"I mean to see the city pretty thoroughly before I go, as I don't imagine I

shall ever come this way again."

"That's all right, but it isn't what I mean."

"What then?"

"Do you remember the old gentleman you saved from a ruffian the night

before you started for the mines?"

"Mr. Woolson, yes."

"You ought to call, you and Jack."

"I'll go this morning. Will you come too, Jack?"

"I'll go with you anywhere, Harry," said the young sailor, whose affection
and admiration for Harry were very strong.

About ten o'clock the boys entered the office of Mr. Woolson. It was
situated in one of the handsomest blocks in Little Collins Street, and they

learned that he was a wholesale merchant and importer.

"Is Mr. Woolson in?" Harry asked of a clerk.